James Wilson wrote: > Well I have a folder lets say its called "voice" and in voice I have a > bunch of folders in there labeled by date. Starting with todays date > all the way back to 10-01-2005. > I want to backup everything till may of 2006 for the. Then I'm going > to delete all those files because I have them on tape. Then every > month I just want to back up the next month so in this case the next > month would be June then July etc. So you don't want a full backup, just a specific folder whose name changes each month.
I would create a symlink /path/to/link, pointing to /path/to/2006-04. Tell the backup to backup /path/to/link. When the backup is done, have a script which deletes /path/to/2006-04, then changes /path/to/link to point at 2006-05. Or you could have amanda backup everything, but use an exclude to block the most recent folders. Then you'd have to rewrite the exclude file regularly. I'm sure there might be a few other ways.